Friday, August 26, 2011

This is my entry for day nine of the Big Idea Festival scrapbook challenge. Karen is providing her readers a free online self pace class called Embrace Imperfection. Check out the details by going to her blog or click on this link. http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/imperfection.php. Thanks Karen, for your generosity!

The book was printed as a travel journal of the city of Boston. I received it free from a friend and decided to recycle it and make it into my pocket size art journal (easy to carry in my purse). The pages are very thin so I first had to glue several pages together so it could support the acrylic paint and images I planned to glue on. I also experimented in making tabs that overhang off the page attached with decorative brads. I drew in the flower after I stamped the hummingbird image... the poor thing looked so lonesome without some sweet nectar nearby.

To me the word FREE reminds me of the empowerment I feel when I am able to create art, art that frees my soul to fly like our winged friends but more importantly fly in a metaphoric fashion to free myself of stress and the world of nonsense that I sometimes find myself consumed with. Nonsense to me is the world of negativity the world of materialism and consumerism. All I need is a small little book to carry my big uncaged ideas and wishes.

2 comments:

Oh how pretty Sandra!!! And thank you for sharing the link to Embrace Imperfection. I LOVE what you wrote about Free and I agree totally! I think Free has been my word/feeling of the year. There is something about just letting go and letting it all be as it was meant to be that is so freeing and empowering!!! Love it!

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Wife and artist living in Lancaster, PA. This blog is where I share my passion for discovering, exploring, and enjoying the alchemy process of creating art inspired by Ancient Words. God is my creator and I create to glorify his name.